Carolina Campanella

Research Interests:
Sleep and memory consolidation across development. In particular, I am interested in how sleep--and more specifically mid-day naps--affects learning in preschool aged children. I am especially interested in the effects of sleep on declarative and emotional memory in preschool aged children.

Eswen Fava

Research Interests:
Here at UMASS, I am involved in Dr. Scott's Brain, Cognition and Development Lab, and am examining how experience with objects, faces and types of labels influences how infants direct their visual attention and processing. My overarching research interests involve better understanding how infants and children process audiovisual speech. To do this, I have utilized behavioral measures, like eye tracking, to investigate how visual attention, and neurophysiological measures like NIRS and ERPs.

Nicole Gervais

M.A. Psychology, Clinical Profile, Concordia University, 2009

Ph.D. Psychology, Concordia University, 2014

Research Interests:
Learning and memory, behavioral neuroendocrinology, aging and cognition. My current research focuses on sex differences and aging in cognition. I’m also involved in developing a nonhuman primate model of menopause.

Benjamin Pawlisch

Research Interests:
Behavioral Neuroendocrinology; Neuropharmacology; Sensory Physiology; more specifically, I'm interested in the role of neuromodulators, like catecholamines and estrogens, within the cortex and how they alter cortical plasticity.

Position:

March 2012- present: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Luke Remage-Healey, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

John J. Willoughby

Research Interests:
Light-induced rod photoreceptor degeneration and factors which might be involved or modulate this process. The Jensen Lab is studying the role that components of the crumbs complex in zebrafish and mouse play in photoreceptor development, function, and pathology.

Position:

May 2003-present Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biology, (Laboratory of Dr. Abbie Jensen), University of Massachusetts Amherst